Eli Friedman Livres

Eli Friedman reveals how cities in China have granted public goods to the privileged while condemning poor and working-class migrants to insecurity, constant mobility, and degraded educational opportunities. He provides a fine- grained account of the life experiences of people drawn into the cities as workers but excluded as full citizens.

Eli Friedman argues that the Chinese state has become hemmed in by an insurgency trap of its own devising and is thus unable to tame expansive worker unrest.

Through first person accounts, this book details the growing unrest, destabilization and strikes in factories that are gripping China.